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Thanks for the input. This how I arrived at 30 amp charger. Refrigerator is pulling 185 watts which equates to an amp and a half of 120. That equates to 15 amps of DC. Allowing for inefficiencies ...say 20 amps of DC. With a duty cycle of about 30% I am puliing 6 amps of power per hour out of...

Have just installed an inverter to run our 21 cu. ft. household type side by side ref/freezer. Previously when underway would run generator during day for refrigerator and other needs: chargers, bilge blowers, AC, etc. At night we would shut the generator down and holdover was fine for about 18...

I think that is the issue...low voltage and high initial load. I hooked a charger to the battery to top it off.... and put a digital voltmeter on the battery. Also switched to a purely resistive load....coffee pot. When the coffee pot was switched on for an instant the voltage dropped and I...

Since launching Annie about 6 years ago we have run the refrigerator solely off 110v. We shut down the generator in the evening and the Kenmoore side by side hold temps overnight pretty well except the ice cream gets a little mushy. .When running in the daytime we run the smaller of two gensets...

I am planning on putting day tank or what I call accumulator tank on both generators. Planning on using one of the 11 gallon steel tire fill tanks that I can buy at an auto supply store. The day tank will feed off the main fuel manifold. The pick up for the generator will be in the bottom of...

I want to thank you all for your responses to my problem. Everyone has valid suggestions. I think one of the major issues is the distance from the fuel supply manifold to the actual generator. For the 40kw it is something like 35 feet and for the 15 it's somewhat less maybe 25 feet. From the...

Yes it will but we generally start the generator before we fire the mains. The generator panels are located in the salon over one of the mains. The generators are well insulated for sound so it's hard to hear what's going on if the mains are running. You can't hear the generators cranking or...

I am having a problem presumably with fuel supply to my generators. We have two, a 15 and a 40. Don't use the 40 very often but we have 120,000 BTUs of AC and cook with electriicity , and have some big compressors, etc., so sometimes in the summertime we need it. Both gensets are relatively new...

.A single set screw is note enough to hold a shaft in. Some shaft couplers are like the prop end, the shaft is tapered and in held in the tapered coupler by a nut. The set screw keeps the nut from backing off. Feel up on the engine end of the coupler and see if you can feel a recess with a nut...

Why not just move the expansion tank? Location is not critical. I have two generators and mounted the expansion tanks outside the sound enclosures to they would be more accessible.

We had to practically give it away. The hull was as perfect as a cored mold could be . I had great visions of building a few of them. After 16 years building Annie, I decided like was not long enough for hull no. 2. So I decided to go play on Annie while I still could. Funny how things never...

Thanks George! She was a neat lady. Miss her.

Annie has a watertight bulkhead aft and we call the entire aft section the lazarette. It has a 12 volt Jabsco 12 volt diaphragm pump on a float switch with manual override plus a high capacity 30 gallon per minute 110volt impeller type JABSCO pump. In the main bilge there are two of the JABSCO...

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These are a few views of the shop. Has everything I need in the shop except room to turn around. When I was building the boat I had two 10 inch cabinet saws and a 8" saw. Didn't have room in the basement here in Alabama*so I have been thinning out a little but added a lathe. Did some turning...

I don't have a sawmil. Have thought about getting one but I can get everything I want sawn *for* 20 cents a foot. And If I take some extra logs to the sawmill for the owner the price goes down. I have so much lumber drying in the barn, * I could never use it in a lifetime. I have about thirty...

This is about as good a it gets. Whistles are made of butternut and the base is walnut. Air supply is a centripetal blower like the ones used on "bounce-houses" and other inflatable things. Does OK but a little noisey. Runs off a laptop computer. Can be played off keyboard which I can do but...

I just bought my first iPad. Loaded shipfinder on it but apple doesn't like Adobe Flash player and I can't get it to work! What do I do?

Actually no and yes. No boiler...couldn't convince the admiral to stay in the bilge and feed the boiler while I was playing with my calliope. I do have two compressors but they are for the steam whistle which takes an incredible amout of air at 125 psi. I have tanks packed everywhere to...

If you want to use cherry, I have a barn full...probably a couple of thousand board feet. 4/4 5/4, 8,4 and 12/4. Some of it has been dryng for 10 years and some of it I cut* and had sawn last year. Some of the boards are 12 feet long and probably 14" wide. I have 48 acres and whenever we lose a...

I have three separate logs. One is navigational and event log. In that one I make entries of events along the route, who is on* board, where we are,etc. In that log I enter engine and generator run times for the day. I am an old sailor*and got in the habit of making hourly position and heading...

Don't fret. I barely knew what a 2 x 4 was when I started. By the time I finished I was buying teak logs fromSE Asia *and milling everything down myself. The calliope was really simple. Built a wooden prototype before I built the one on Annie. The wooden calliope is in the basement now*and is...

Has anyone built a calliope for their boat???** I built mine with homemade engineering and guess work but it works great. Plays off midi files stored on my laptop in pilot house. * Also wanted to bring up "cutsie names" for dinghies. Annie's tender is "Orphan Annie" -- Edited by Whistledoc...

Thanks for the kind words from everyone about the other woman in my life... Annie.* Sort of a story behind the name. When it takes 16 years to build a boat I would see people at the hardware store and the chandleries that I didn't see very often. They knew I had gone off the deep end and was...

Hi Eric... Can't remember exactly. Probably about one every 6 inches. In areas where ther was a lot of bend we used 2.5" screws into the frames. In areas where there was no bend we used 1" screws jus t holding the two layers together. Once the epoxy kicked off the fasteners didn't do anything...